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1822 Decr. 16 Tripoli. Securities against
1822 Decr. 16 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule. 7o Preliminary

Explanations ?.2 Remedy - Publicity Publ. Opin. Tribunal ? Unofficial where

inferior

Thus much as to the points in which this unofficial Judicatory has the advantage

over /is superior to/ the Official Judicatories. Now as to those in which it

lies under a disadvantage.

1. In the first place, taken in its totality, it labours under a division - a

constant and universally obtaining /established/ division in respect of

interests: two parties, constituting so many sections - the democratical and the

aristocratical, are destined in all communities and at all times to have place

in it. The interest of the few the extra opulent and thereby, even if by no

other means, the powerful few being in a state of constant opposition to that of

the many - that of the consuming class which produces nothing to that of the

producing class which produces more than it consumes - hence it is that whatever

power is in the hands of the aristocratical class over and above that which is

in the hands of the same number of those of the democratical class constitutes a

sort of disease, with which the body politic taken in its totality is afflicted.

Consult [...?] on Medicine for the nomenclature

By the original structure of its constitution this body is destined to labour

under two distinguishable diseases, having for their cause or causes, the inward

existence of two intestine sets of enemies: one set composed of the ultra

indigent class of malefactors, who being as such weak and powerless and objects

of general disgust, are thereby punishable exposed to punishment: the other

composed of the ultra opulent who being as such powerful and objects of general

respect, are /stand/ thereby exempted and preserved from punishment. Of both of

the depredation is the characteristic occupation: by the ultra indigent it is

/acts/ ever acted upon a small scale, by the ultra opulent upon the largest

scale.
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